If I Could Walk With the Animals...

I'm not sure about the rest of you 360 owners.
But navigating Tall Pines and the surrounding forest area is not really feasible.
That many trees and random grizzly encounters
(they sure can run fast, can't they?)
is too much for the system to load at once.
Really, the glitchiness and unplayability in this area are a testament to the forest's design.
The system chugs loading everything because a forest should have so much...stuff in it.
And Rockstar's forest does.
Nevertheless, the 360 has been hacking and coughing quite a bit.
Since entering Blackwater, actually.Y'know, the medicine system in the game is really somewhat primitive.
You get partially mauled by a cougar (speaking of running fast).
So, you access your provisions, freeze everything, use your medicine, and you're fine.
With hotdog and peanut vendors sort of straying from the motif, the medicine itself is an okay concept.
But using it should really be done on the fly.
If the original Ninja Gaiden remake is called out on this, I don't see why Red Dead should be any different.
...
And the skinning animation gets old.
Okay.
I'm done.
The game is a triumph.
But it has flaws.
We're all adults here.
Face facts.
Triumphs can be like that.
Ross Rebagliati can tell you all about it.
Seriously, though.
Taking away someone's gold medal due to traces of marijuana.
If you ask me, if you can get stoned and still snowboard well enough to win a gold medal, you deserve two gold medals.
One regular gold medal, and one that has gold foil with chocolate inside.